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When and why would a "Bluffer" finally "give in" and admit he or she was "Bluffing"? en Español
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When and why would a "Bluffer" finally "give in" and admit he or she was "Bluffing"? en Español
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Rather than introduce a new version of the "Bluffer" sofa what's to improve?
Design With a Je Ne Sais Quoi Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011
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Hart, too, ducked Johnson until he lost his title to Tommy Burns, who also avoided Johnson as if he were the plague to the great disgust of true sportsmen the world over, including Edward VII of England, who called Burns a “Yankee Bluffer,” and did all he could to bring the two together.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Hart, too, ducked Johnson until he lost his title to Tommy Burns, who also avoided Johnson as if he were the plague to the great disgust of true sportsmen the world over, including Edward VII of England, who called Burns a “Yankee Bluffer,” and did all he could to bring the two together.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Hart, too, ducked Johnson until he lost his title to Tommy Burns, who also avoided Johnson as if he were the plague to the great disgust of true sportsmen the world over, including Edward VII of England, who called Burns a “Yankee Bluffer,” and did all he could to bring the two together.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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After which he gives the following specimen, of their songs, written by a "Bluffer and Red-devil:" --
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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And then there was Miss Slack, and Miss Trotter, and Mr. Skimpole (a lineal descendant of the urbane Harold), and Mr. Looseley, and Mr. Rattler, and Striker, and Bluffer, and Smiley; all these took a hand at the mill that was rolling out the character of "Dodd" Weaver, and there are marks of their varied crankings upon him to this day.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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Bluffer is quite as familiar in Cuban Spanish as it is in New Mexican Spanish, though in Cuba it has become blofista instead of blofero.
Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 3. Spanish Henry Louis 1921
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"Who is this Hank the Bluffer?" questioned Dick, curiously.
The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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